in my life

Also, while I'm at it, for... let's call them various reasons which I am not very proud of I haven't crossposted here any of the (very few) fics I've written since, it seems, Yuletide 2014. But they exist! They are not many, but they exist. So for posterity and whatnot, and in case you want to read them, here they are:

Overtime (Brooklyn Nine-Nine/Sports Night/Hockey RPF crossover, 2300 words, gen, G)
Warnings: none
Summary: Dan and Casey (don't) cover a game that never ends. Well, almost.
Repost of fic originally posted in three parts for tieleen Purimgifts 2015.

We All Need Somebody To (The Mindy Project, 3700 words, Mindy/Danny, PG-13)
Five times Danny and Mindy swapped patients with each other.
Warnings: none
Summary:Five times Danny and Mindy swapped patients with each other.
Written for ohtempora for Yuletide 2015.

We've Only Just Begun (The Turn of the Story, 1700 words, Luke/Elliot, PG-13)
Warnings: none
Summary:Luke and Elliot take a stroll along the lake.
Written for cmshaw for Yuletide 2016.

Perks of the Trade (Supergirl, 400 words, Kara/James, G)
Warnings: none
Tags: Hamilton references
Summary: Defeating super-villains is cause for celebration and all, but there are MORE IMPORTANT THINGS to get excited about.
Written for celli for Fandom Stocking 2016.

As Real As (Bandom - P!atD, 8100 words, Brendon/Spencer, PG-13)
Warnings: background homophobia
Tags: high school AU, fake/pretend boyfriend
Summary: "That's right," Spencer tells Brent, pacing the lawn outside Brent's house, "apparently at my high school, having a college boyfriend trumps all."
Or: it's not easy being the only out kid at school, until Spencer finds a way to raise his social status.
Written for Sena for Bandomstuffsit 2012. (No one ever said I was timely.)

Three Marches (MCU, 2700 words, Rebecca Barnes, Steve, Bucky, Peggy, gen, G)
Warnings: none
Summary:
March 1934 - This is what Rebecca Barnes remembers from the year she turned seven.
March 1960 - It's the 15-year anniversary of the fall of the Valkyrie. The Howling Commandos have a picnic.
March 2017 - Bucky comes home.
Written for noxelementalist for Purimgifts 2017, with art by toxic_hedgehog.

I also contributed to some days i (wish that i wasn't myself) (MCU RPF - Chris Evans/Sebastian Stan, actor/journalist AU, 5300 words, Mature), which began as twitterfic, but was ultimately fully written into actual fic by notcaycepollard.

*wipes brow*
WHY do I continue to resist AO3's share button formatting, WHY

I ended up going to the concert! I dragged T with me, who is my coworker and travel buddy from back home (work rented us neighboring apartments and we spend... pretty much every day and every evening together). It was not his kind of music ultimately, but he did enjoy the show, because wow, does that band know how to put on a show. Brendon Urie. He's a talented guy.


look! they didn't take my camera away! also he has a wedding ring! times they have changed

I had no idea just how young the crowd would be, perhaps I'm a little out of touch with reality, but I'm also pretty sure the crowd in New York was much younger than the crowd was in the Panic concert I saw in London. In any case we hung out in the back feelings old, but the venue was spacious and I could see the stage well and that is all I wanted.

I was worried that Brendon would act like a douche, because uh, he can sometimes be that, especially in live shows, but he was very nice! Not nearly as talkative as he was in the last concert I saw him at, mostly just sang and thanked the audience every once in while, making sure no one was getting crushed up front.

I am still not a huge fan of Panic's fourth album and don't know the songs there well at all, but there were one or two that I changed my opinion about, seeing them performed live... now I just have to figure out which songs they were.

--oh and he did a backflip during Miss Jackson and it was pretty freaking gorgeous. And at least half the songs were from the first three albums, so you know. I was happy.

In honor of the LA Kings deciding to post their very own original team vid set to MCR's Welcome to the Black Parade earlier this week, here is a short compilation of hockey vids set to bandom songs:

1. From HBO's The Road to Winter Classic: Penguins/Capitals, an episode-ending montage set to Black Parade sans vocals, which is ridiculously narrated but ugh, such great music. The video intercuts shots of the players with shots of Pittsburgh's Heinz Field football stadium being transformed into an outdoors hockey rink, which is kind of cool. Quality is unfortunately not HD :( Link here, or embedded below cut. ( Cut! )

2. From the LA Kings, an intro video they aired before their Game 3 against the St. Louis Blues last week. It's all "Let's paint it black and take it back!". Because the Kings' uniforms are black! I can only imagine Ryan Ross's reaction, sitting in that crowd and watching the video play. Because My Chemical Romance make him ~dance~. Link here, or... embedded below cut. ( Cut cut )

3. Beautiful Blackhawks vid by way2busymom set to Panic! at the Disco's Ready to Go, which is such a great song to set sports videos to, building it up <3 This is my favorite vid of the lot (clearly fangirls are the best talented), and you really get a sense of team and talent and awesomeness <3. Also lol forever at "you're such a pretty thing" playing over Patrick Sharp in a suit, hahaha. Download links here.

4. I don't know, guys. Here is a video of Taylor Kitsch and David Boreanaz playing hockey, throwing down their gloves and helmets, stripping off their sweaters, and having it out on the ice. In the end Michael Rosenbaum skates over and squirts water at them to cool them down. And in the background, you can hear Welcome to the Black Parade playing. Because that's just how that sing rolls. ( Also embedded below cut. )

And now it is Saturday afternoon and I am starving and my fridge is empty. Unfortunate circumstances normally, but NO! For the first time, I'm actually remembering that there is a single supermarket chain that is open on Saturdays, and that I can, like, go there and exchange money for goods. On a Saturday. It's great. I'm excited :D Off I go and when I come back I will make salad and catch up on allll the Mad Men.

OKAY. I think it is time to make an actual post that is not just whining. SO. I will talk about three things and they will be, in the following order, (a) clone!Spencer, (b) fun., and (c) cows.

(a) THE RETURN OF CLONE!SPENCER. As you may or may not recall, a few weeks ago I went to a show at a club in Tel Aviv and encountered Spencer Smith's clone. On Monday I went to a friend's birthday at the same club AND LO, who was manning the sound stand if not MR. CLONE HIMSELF. And the show was nice at all but so was getting to stare at that dude all evening. Again. And I WILL at some point figure out how to maybe in the future but in the meantime I'm just going at it research mode, all "oh, so this is how Spencer Smith moves" and "this is how SS drinks" and "this is how S flirts" and so on and so forth. And thn on Thursday evening marina and I went to see Antigone Rising playing at the same club, and they were a fucking awesome all-girl rock band (youtube channel here) and it was a great start to a pretty great weekend. And yes, clone!Spencer was working the sound again so I was basically just walking around like this *________* all night.

If you are not in Bandom feel free to skip the next part because I am a creepy stalker; if you are in Bandom PHOTOS AND VIDEO OF CLONE!SPENCER BELOW: ( stalkerstalkerstalker )

(b) there is this band called fun. and they have a new album.

Man, I love fun. so much <3. So so much <3 <3 <3. So, if you do not know fun., here is a primer on who they are. They released their new album Some Nights this week, which you can stream here at ournameisfun.com (when the site isn't down, ha), and I have just been pimping this everywhere I can. To wit, one of the whiteboards at work which a neighboring office wiped clean so I would have room to draw them stuff:

( non-stop pimping )

Here they are on Conan a few days ago:

I saw this yesterday and I was just, this was my face: ♥___♥. Not many people actually sound GOOD on live TV but man, Nate's voice, it's MAGICAL how like the recording he is. And his hair <3! And I love that Jack is wearing the band's official “It’s all fun. and gay ’til someone loses their rights. LGBTQ Equality Now" t-shirt on the stage where it would get the most exposure, and that along with the album release promotions, and now that they've been getting (so I understand) more hype due to the Glee cover of their song, he also blogged for the Huffington Post: Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities.

In conclusion I love this band for many different reasons. I will say that the thing I don't like about this album is some of the auto-tuning, because I love Nate's voice and any auto-tuning just seems so unnecessary and in the way. But other than that: <3.

(c) cows.

We went to the hills outside town today! marina came over and we took the dog for a walk in new and exciting pastures. There were flowers and cows and sunlight. A+ weekend weather, would repeat again.

( A couple photos below the cut: )

That's it! I was going to link to/rec/mention some more stuff but I am nodding off in front of the laptop screen, so not atm. <---ETA wooow fail. I wrote that hours ago and then fell asleep before hitting send and then Windows Updates restarted my computer and closed all of my open files. Thank you, DW draft saver; you can all pretend I posted this at a normal hour instead of 6AM.

So I may have failed to answer your wonderful, wonderful comments on my last post, but thank you so much for the encouragement and validation and I am GOING TO LONDON. I angsted and angsted, and my boss said "you can go if you take just one day off", and then I double-checked she was still cool with it and she CHANGED HER MIND and there was a LOT of angst of the what-the-fuck-am-I-doing-at-this-job-that-I-don't-love-earning-money-if-I-can't-use-it-to-do-the-things-I-DO-love kind, and then, half an hour later, she changed her mind again! So on Friday morning I bought the flight tickets, and yesterday I managed to get a standing ticket to the show, and so I am flying in two days *___*

On the bad side, I have been working my ASS off this week trying to make up in advance the work I'm going to miss because I'm grateful to my boss for letting me go, which is kind of crap because I have vacation days and shouldn't ACTUALLY be staying in the office until 10PM, but my brain is kind of fucked up and tired and overworked right now. So it's been an exhausting week, and unfortunately it's also come at the expense of purimgifts, which, ha, still not live. I will try my hardest to get it live tonight.

On the bright side: LONDON. PANIC. LONDON. MEETING PEOPLE. :D! It has done me so much good, spirits-wise, making this decision and buying the tickets and just going with it, that I really can't regret it, and don't regret the cost. I just feel so good about this, of taking this break and doing this thing I want to do just for me and not holding out for rewarding myself for when I get everything fixed in my life. I have't taken any vacation days in the over a year I've worked in this company (sick days, yes, errand days, but not a real vacation), and I haven't traveled abroad at all since last summer, and just thinking about cold London air is making me ♥.

My plans are basically:

*Land on Thursday noon (around 12)
*Arrive at the venue at around 5:30PM? Doors open at 7:00, I hear there are lines for this sort of thing? (advice welcome!)
*concert, then sunsetmog!
*be in London on Friday!
*be in London on Saturday!
*possibly catch a musical during one of these days! (Sat matinee?) Or try and catch Leronardo Da Vince at the National Gallery. OR BOTH.
*leave for the airport at about 6:30PM for my 10:30 flight back Saturday night

SO. Given that I don't have a LOT of time in London, but certainly some, I would love to meet some of you while I'm there, and also just in general get recommendations for local stuff that I might not have heard of; consider that I've been to London before and have done the big touristy things, but I still LIKE big touristy things like museums and castles and cool exhibitions, but I also like small local stuff, or just walking around, especially if it means getting to hang out with people :D

This is probably the worst time to post given that it's almost the end if the day in the UK right now, BUT OKAY SO: questions!

1. London questions:
--will you be in London this weekend? Do you want to meet up? If so, since this is kind of last minute coordination, please comment/email/PM me your contact info (email/phone/skype). I'll have my regular phone while I'm there, and internet where there's wifi.
--Do you have any recommendations/tips for places to go, events taking place this weekend that I shouldn't miss, anything?
--oh god how warm do I need to dress? It's going to be like 1 degree. It was over 15 degrees here today. Meep?

2. Panic/concert questions:
--Will YOU be at the show?
--Brixton Academy and dSLR cameras: y/n? Will they let me in? How can I convince them to? What will happen if I try to smuggle it in? Will there be a place to check my bag/coat and is it safe?
--How early do I REALLY need to be there to have a decent place in line?
--CAN YOU SEE SPENCER WELL ENOUGH FROM DALLON'S SIDE OF THE STAGE
--ummm any other tips?

So that is that. I'm sorry this was so long and uncut! I'm sorry that sounded like a dick joke! I just. This is what their shows have been like lately, okay. And I am going to London. I am the definition of excite <3 \o/

GUYS. GUYS the night I have had. I SAW SPENCER SMITH'S CLONE. I have mostly forbidden marina to post about this because I know she will make me out to be a ridiculous stalkerlady which haha WILL NOT BE THAT FAR FROM THE TRUTH but okay, it's a FREE COUNTRY (MOSTLY FOR MOST PEOPLE), STARING IS NOT AGAINST THE LAW. Besides, he never saw me staring. I know because I was staring at this dude every second he was in my line of site.

( wherein I ramble about this dude a LOT )

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...and this is what ended up breaking my posting silence. Here is what happened: I was a truly, truly, unforgivably crappy ficathon participant this December. I ended up submitting both my yuletide and bandomstuffsit stories, but I was so late and stressed and terrible at mod communication and guilty about it that I just -- didn't feel like I could post anything while I was still getting those done, and then didn't feel like I could post anything until I made big epic thank you posts to my gifters (because oh my god, the gifts I got this year, I am still overwhelmed), and until I left the proper comments everywhere, and until I replied to all the comments and posts that I wanted to, and and and, and in the end I just put everything on hold and end up being frustrated. So my apologies for now, and I will post an actual round up and thank yous, and my 2012 resolution is not to sign up for any exchange style ficathons in 2012 because clearly I've forgotten how to do them in a healthy way. I don't even know what I'll be doing for purimgifts (which, ha, I really need to start organizing), but despite really really wanting to, I should not sign myself up for.

So this has been the reason of my lack of posting. And oh, I want to post. THE GOOD WIFE (last week's episode ♥♥♥ Diane ♥♥♥). SHAMELESS -- is anyone watching Shameless (US)? omg &Ian; &Fiona; &Lip; &everyone;. And Bandom, ugh, this nearly two hour podcast with Panic that I'm not even half done listening to, and SPENCER'S NEW GIRLFRIEND: CONFIRMED, WHAT DO I DO WITH THAT, and Ryan tweeting Spencer back after Spencer's stupid 69 joke <3, and MCR's pretty pretty pretty Kids From Yesterday video.

ALSO. Some non-fandom stuff: the country pretty much had a COLLECTIVE NATIONAL ORGASM yesterday from the 11 centimeters of... water that were added to the Kineret (Sea of Galilee) over the weekend with the rainstorms we've (finally!) had for the past three days. The Kineret surface level (miflas ha'Kineret) has two red lines: the upper red line which means DANGER DANGER SURFACE LEVEL SHOULD NOT GO BELOW THIS LINE, and the bottom red line which means hahahaha DOOM. The surface level dropped below the bottom red line a few years ago, and is currently 5 meters or so below the upper red line (you can see the updated stats in the diagram with the floating ducky here). And yet, 11 cms is a cause to rejoice. RAIN.

Speaking of water, here is what I recently learned about Finding Nemo: If Nemo were real, then Nemo's dad would have transformed into the breeding female after Nemo's mom died, and Nemo would have become the breeding male. THAT'S RIGHT. I know.

I had a mostly lovely birthday weekend with my sisters and family and friends. I got amazing gifts -- a Kindle Fire from my parents, and money-I-will-be-using-to-but-filters-for-my-camera-lens-with (does anyone here know anything about polarizer/ND/GND filters? I do not really but I WANT THEM) from my grandmother, and a laptop lap-desk from friends (it's like they know me), and handmade Brendon and Spencer ornaments (I kid you not) from marina + other fun stuff, and there are many things I feel like I'm doing wrong with my life and birthdays are a chance to reevaluate and I guess feel bad about them, but it was a lovely weekend nonetheless.

I don't even know what I'm trying to say in this very incoherent post, except that I met

Smith's clone, I'm sorry for my recent conduct/misconduct/lack of any kind of conduct on LJ(/DW), and oh, even if I don't seem to be here or comment much anymore, I am reading and trying to be caught up as much as I can.

Okay, the water has heated up enough for me to take a shower and wash off the smell of bar-cigarettes; off I go.

...oh my god, I just saw MCR singing the song they wrote on Yo Gabba Gabba. This band. How are they so... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If EVER I needed a reminder for how awesome they are.

Porn meme at synecdochic's! I may have left about 20 Bandom (mostly Panic) prompts. Check it outtttt :D

(Everyone not in Bandom/Panic I am truly sorry for spamming the comments there. I will do my best to justify it with a fill. ALSO you should all participate with your fandoms okay ~share the love~.)

I have the crappiest internet connection in the universe and I don't even know if it will last long enough for me to post so I just want to say two things:

1. I just watched yesterday's Merlin and ( I'm editing to cut for a single line of emotional spoilers because I hate emotional spoilers )

2. Signs ups for bandomstuffsit, the Bandom holiday exchange, end tonight, so if you want to participate (AND IF YOU ARE IN BANDOM, PLEASE DO) don't forget to sign up here.

Man oh man oh man I really need to install some internet in this joint /o\ This time I am going to pull out all the stops with a 10MB connection, you bet I am. It will be heaven, I am sure.

And now I will watch episode 2 of Game of Thrones, which I have promised to watch in exchange for a girl from work reading The Hunger Games. I'm not even sure how that trade-off makes sense.

anyway yeah GO SIGN UP. (Also: welcome back, marina! You have chosen the best of all weeks to come back, if goodness is measured by the content aired on the nightly news. The best.)

I am wearing long sleeves for the first time this fall! \o/ Granted, it is evening, and my long sleeves are over the sleeveless I wore all day, and it is mostly because the air-conditioning in this cafe is a little too strong, but still. I am absolutely crediting it to the month of October.

I am assuming you're asking which cafe I am sitting at, because naturally. It is the cafe next to my new apartment :D Which is still an utter mess, but today I decided that fuck it, I will sleep in that place even if it looks like hell. It's been a really, really long day at work -- everything decided to crash, and it feels like we have to get a ton of stuff done before the holiday, which is stupid because Yom Kippur is on a weekend so really this is just a regular weekend! But everyone's panicking. ANYWAY I ended up leaving work at 21:50 (/o\), and since I haven't stocked the apartment with any food yet, I would have had no dinner, and LO, a few streets from my quiet neighborhood place there is a cafe! So I decided to check it out. It is called Neighbouts Cafe, and as I walked in I had three questions: 1. Is the kitchen still open? 2. Do you serve actual food? and 3. Do you have wifi? The answer to all three was yes, and I like this place so much! It is a dairy only place (=veggie for the rest of you guys) and after I ordered they served me grape leaf rolls with tziziki because, I don't know, just because. Their salad was a combo of all these strange earthy-fruity vegetable-fruit-nut mix and it was excellent, as was the (veggie, idk) Shepherd's Pie, AS IS the iced coffee that I am still sipping. In short: I am pleased with this cafe and enjoy knowing that I am living in its proximity and would like to invite all of you to it (and to my many fold-out couches which I apparently have!).

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Last night I was feeling antsy and wanted to draw something using our new iPad drawing app I mentioned, which I wanted to practice on, and isweedan prompted me with "characters in space", and so: ( Kiljoys in space! )

I still have much to learn, but I am generally pleased :-) Another thing I am generally SO MUCH MORE THAN GENRALLY pleased about is that ever since the beginning of the Jewish new year not one week ago, there have been TWO Bandom kidfic not!fics posted \o/! I would like to declare 5772 the Year of Kidfic and hope that this trend continues for a long long time *__*. Meanwhile here are the two super adorable fluffy not!fics of happiness:

The one where Mr. Brendon teaches Spencer's niece by reni_days (Spencer/Brendon, probably 2-3k?)

The one where single dad!Brendon is Spencer's PA which starts off as an office AU and ends up so much more <333 by sunsetmog, hermette and pennyplainknits (Brendon/Spencer, 11lk, PG-13/R)

Okay. I am now officially way too tired to actually clean apartment tonight as planned. So I will: (a) stick around the cafe for a while longer since I don't know if the apartment will have wifi, (b) crash into bed, hopefully managing to clear it of all the crap I stored on it for now before hand, (c) try to clean the place as much as I can tomorrow morning, before (d) driving back to my parents' by 15:00 at most, because it'll be Yom Kippur eve and people don't drive starting from around aftenoonish. I don't think I'll be going to services tomorrow afternoon; honestly, I just don't feel like the hour-long walk. But idk, we'll see. In case I don't get to say it before then -- G'mar Hatima Tova <3